YONKERS, New York, March 18 -- Consumer Reports posted the following statement on March 17, 2025: * * * Amazon refuses to take legal responsibility for consumer safety, sues federal watchdog agency: Consumer Reports statement WASHINGTON, D.C -- Consumer Reports (CR), the nonprofit and nonpartisan research, testing, and advocacy organization, today denounced a lawsuit filed by Amazon against the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) in federal district court in Maryland. In the suit  more

WASHINGTON, March 17 [Category: Sociological] -- The Council on American-Islamic Relations posted the following news release: * * * CAIR Applauds Witness Testimonies in Favor of Maryland Bill to Protect Boycott Rights in State Procurement Civil rights group testifies on range of bills including immigrants' rights; students' rights; protecting, extending funeral licensure to Houses of worship The Maryland office of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) today applauded witnesses wh  more

WASHINGTON, March 17 [Category: Sociological] -- The Council on American-Islamic Relations posted the following news release: * * * CAIR to Release New Maryland Civil Rights Data Revealing Troubling Trends in Islamophobia, Discrimination On Wednesday, March 19, the Maryland office of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation's largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, plans to release civil rights data specific to that state showing a troubling trend in Islamop  more

BALTIMORE, Maryland, March 18 -- Johns Hopkins Medicine issued the following news release: * * * Global Warming Can Lead to Inflammation in Human Airways, New Research Shows Drier air caused by climate change poses respiratory health risk by dehydrating airways, researchers say In a recent, cross-institutional study partially funded by the National Institutes of Health, researchers report that healthy human airways are at higher risk for dehydration and inflammation when exposed to dry air,  more

BALTIMORE, Maryland, March 18 -- Kennedy Krieger Institute issued the following news release: * * * Kennedy Krieger Screening Model Improves Early Autism Diagnosis for Underserved Communities A new study led by Kennedy Krieger Institute's Center for Autism Services, Science and Innovation (CASSI) finds that a community-based screening model is helping children receive autism diagnoses faster, particularly in underserved communities. The research, published in Pediatric Investigation, highlig  more

WASHINGTON, March 18 -- The American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education issued the following news release: * * * Teacher Preparation Grants Reinstated for AACTE, NCTR, MACTE Members The U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland ruled in favor of AACTE (American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education), the National Center for Teacher Residencies (NCTR) and the Maryland Association of Colleges for Teacher Education (MACTE) to reinstate grants created to support teacher  more

BALTIMORE, Maryland, March 18 -- The University of Baltimore issued the following news release: * * * Law Prof. Astrachan: Impact of Abandoned Trademark is Difficult to Predict Writing in The Daily Record, James B. Astrachan, an adjunct faculty member in The University of Baltimore School of Law and an expert in trademark, copyright and intellectual property law, says that a recent legal case involving the Proud Boys' loss of their trademark to a church is complicated by what the "abandonment  more